Self-awareness is lacking in NATO/American/Western/British foreign policy

Self-awareness is lacking in NATO/American/Western/British foreign policy

1. No conception that Russia has us over a barrel with its gas reserves that we desperately need.
2. NATO gets everywhere, Russia does not.  Even to the South Atlantic Falkland Islands and, the disputed Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
3. NATO frontrunner, the USA has a large military base on the largest island, Diego Garcia.  The islands are administered by Britain that refuses to recognise a 2019 ruling at the International Court of Justice that it should relinquish control to Mauritius.
4. Britain's two opium wars with China in the 19th century that former Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Portillo called "disgraceful".
5. NATO member, the USA, put Jupiter rockets on Turkey's border with the USSR, pointing straight at them!  That gave Russia the bad example to follow suit and so we had the Cuban missile crisis.
6. I thought I saw a Michael Portillo TV programme where he said he had uncovered archives of American bombers depth charging Russian submarines in the three weeks of the Cuban missile crisis?  Have I really remembered that correctly?
7. A Radio 4 programme reported how one Russian submarine officer in charge at the time, wondered if he should let off his missiles at the USA.  A close-run thing.  That Russian saved us from nuclear holocaust.
8. Aggressive war leaders, Napoleon (France) and Hitler (Austrian) were not Russian.  But Stalin was hardly better, I know!
9. Yet, Stalin helped us to defeat our own W European warmonger and, in the process, saw between 20 and 30 million Russians slaughtered in the war, to help us win. 
10. Britain's empire was bigger and longer-lasting than Russia's.
11. The democratic, fair-playing Brits love to throw their weight around in the world to bring justice and righteousness to balefully inadequate nations who don't know how to do things like we do.
12. Only we fight communism and bring capitalism to these sad and evil empire nations.
13. NATO member, Greater Than Ever Brexit Britain, has fought (and lost) more wars in Afghanistan than Russia.  We had a war in Crimea from 1853-1856.
14. Future NATO members were all involved in the Super Scramble for Africa and not Russia.
15. Even in the Arab Middle East, we have our very own Western, materialistic, nice Nation of Israel.
16. Playing second fiddle to Israel is our great ally and our solid friend and arms purchaser, Saudi Arabia.

• We are the problem and set a quite outrageously unacceptably bad example to Russia and China.
• Nothing quite like the pot calling the kettle black!
• Our righteous, freedom-loving, democratic demeanour dictates we are right and they are wrong.
• We always see the splinter in their eye and never the dirty great big plank in ours!